In this post, I will use ILOG Elixir Gauges framework to build a circular gauge which blinks if the value of the gauge is greater than a threshold value. This kind of gauge can be useful to point out critical indicators in a dashboard with many gauges. view...

As mashup plateforms like iGoogle or Netvibes become more and more popular in the web 2.0 world, it might be interesting to see how Flex stuff can be integrated with them. The widget we are going to create is probably one of the most classic ones: an analog...

Most of the time, gauges scales are displayed with two types of ticks, the major ticks, that are usually the bigger ones and the minor optional smaller ticks. So you finally get two sizes of ticks and that’s enough. However in some cases you might want to...

This blog entry focuses on one of the custom gauges I used in the FactBook Demo post. view here This gauge is an editable gauge which allows to divide an interval with triangle cursors. We will see how to build such a gauge with ILOG Elixir Gauges...

In general, ILOG Elixir gauges are displaying the current value of the gauge using a pointer pattern such as a needle or a marker. However in some cases you might want to display the current value using a different pattern than pointing the value. A typical...

As you may know Adobe has released on its open-source web site the first nightly builds of Flex 4 aka Gumbo release. You can download them here . If you want to give it a try, go ahead, but carefully read the instructions and be cautious as these are very...

The following code sample can be used to change the appearance of the active HATS input field. This block of code can be added to the header of an individual transformation to apply this feature to a single page or to the template of the project to apply to...

The following code sample shows how to map the Up and Down
arrow keys to shift the focus to the previous and next input fields
respectively in a HATS web project. This block of code can be added to the header of an
individual transformation to apply...

The following code sample shows how to map the Up and Down arrow keys to move the focus up and down a column of input fields in a HATS web project. The following screen shows a transformation with vertical columns which this code would be ideally suited for:...

Tip of the Day: Customizing Your IBM Support Portal, Part 1 Did you know you can customize the IBM Support Portal? Yes! You can change the layout and content of each page to suit your individual needs! IBM has built the IBM Support Portal to be...

Tip of the Day: Customizing Your IBM Support Portal, Part 2 Did you know you can move, add or delete portlets on your IBM Support Portal pages? Yes! You can change the layout and content of each page to suit your individual needs! IBM has built the IBM...

Tip of the Day: How Signing in Helps with Service Requests If, after looking through your IBM Support Portal pages for the answers to your IBM product questions, you still need to contact IBM Support, being already signed in will make working with your...

Hi Everyone, Welcome to Useful Tiny Little Things, a
series of topics that I will publish in the Process Automation blog. My
name is Leandro Cassa and I work at IBM as the CCMDB Level 3 support
team leader. The purpose of this series is to provide...

Tip of the Day: Finding Your Product's Support Page in Just 2 Clicks! Today's tip solves the problem of finding a particular product's support site quickly when you are not already in the IBM Support Portal. Here's how to get to the answers you need in 2...

When working with partners, I find customizing is almost imperative. Invariably the customer has this feature, this product and many other things which must be tied together to make the ultimate install. You might find these links helpful when you customize...

ITCAM for SOA v7.1.1 allows you to examine the metrics and relationships by requester identity for a specific service port and operation pair. http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tivihelp/v3r1/topic/com.ibm.itcamsoa.doc/kd4ugmst70.htm#ws_reqidforoper...

In this example, I created an iWidget component that retrieves the Task List of the user. To create iWidgets on the business space, you need to provide the following items: 1. The iWidget XML file: This is the main file which contains the iWidget markup. 2....

Tip of the Day: Adding or deleting IBM Support Portal modules How do I add or delete modules? To customize the IBM Support Portal for your specific needs, you can add or remove modules from each page in the portal. To add or delete a module, you must...

Tip of the Day: Seeing more information in IBM Support Portal modules How do I see more information in the module? The IBM Support Portal delivers a large amount of data in a small amount of space. Each module sorts its content by product. You can...

Tip of the Day: Minimizing / maximizing IBM Support Portal modules How do I minimize and maximize a module? The module tools in the IBM Support Portal allow you to minimize modules to hide content and maximize a module for a full-page view. Minimizing...

In this Blog, I want to share some cool techniques that I have learned with my four+ years of portal experience. 1. Custom Logout without any Logout filters, but using the out of the box portal navigation and security model. Step 1: Create a new URL entry in...

How many custom reports do you have? Do you have 25, 50 – or is your number in the
range of 100 to 250 custom reports? Or
are you in the category where you don’t know how many custom reports you have
because your users are creating their own...

Unexpected events…like a snow storm in Boston in October.... Or a server outage…can cause unforeseen difficulties in what
we had hoped would be a stress free, ordinary day. But for those events that are predictable, like Version 7
Fix pack and release...

Tivoli Workload Scheduler version 8.6 introduced the new Job Type plug-in . The main feature of this type of job is that everyone can create a new job type that suits various business needs, from the integration with an advanced reporting suite to a file...